A semi-hard magnetic alloy for activation strips in magnetic anti-theft security systems is disclosed that contains 8 to 25 weight % Ni, 1.5 to 4.5 weight % Al, 0.5 to 3 weight % Ti and balance iron. The alloy is distinguished over known, employed alloys by excellent magnetic properties and a high resistance to corrosion. Further, the inventive alloy can be excellently cold-worked before the annea...

A segmentation method of a frame of image information including a plurality of spaced DNA spot images corresponding to a plurality of DNA spots. The image information includes image intensity level information corresponding to said DNA spots. The frame is stored in a memory device and a set of image information within said frame including a selected set of the DNA spot images is selected. A grid i...

A training device for a gliding sport athlete trains the athlete to have the proper knee bend for gliding sports such as ice skating, inline skating, skiing, etc. The device includes a belt and a pair of foot attachments adapted to be fastened to a front portion of the respective feet or footwear of the athlete. One end of each pair of cords is connected to the belt at a position between the front...

Conformationally constrained compounds which mimic the secondary structure of reverse-turn regions of biologically active peptides and proteins having the following structure are disclosed: wherein A, R1, R2, R2a, R3, R3a and R4 are as defined herein. Such compounds have utility over a wide range of fields, including use as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. In particular, compounds of this inven...

This invention relates to compounds of the general formula: in which RA, RB, RC, RD, RE, p, q and X are as defined herein, and to their preparation and use.

Compounds of the formula I Ar is a group or unsubstituted or substituted cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, naphthyl, biphenylyl or an O-, S- or N-containing 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring; R1 and R2 are C1-C20alkyl, OR11, CF3 or halogen; R3, R4 and R5 are hydrogen, C1-C20alkyl, OR11 or halogen; R6 is unsubstituted or substituted C1-C24alkyl, C2-C24alkyl, which is interrupted by O, S or NR14 and is u...

The invention concerns a dental composition comprising bisacrylamides that are polymerizable by free-radical polymerization and by Michael-addition polymerization with amines. The application of polymerization and addition polymerization with amines opens the possibility to completely reacted materials that have no oxygen inhibited layers. The claimed bisacrylamides have an improved hydrolytic sta...

An augmentation-index determining apparatus, including a cuff, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressing pressure of the cuff, a pulse-wave extracting device which extracts a pulse wave from the cuff, a peak-occurrence-time determining device for determining, based on a high-cuff-pressure pulse wave which is extracted by the pulse-wave extracting device when the cuff-pressure changi...

A method includes determining the node ID information of a second node device of a multi-node computer system. The method stores the node ID information of the second node device on a storage device located on a first node device of the multi-node computer system. The first node device is connected to the second node device and the second node device includes a storage device containing node ID in...

The invention concerns an aqueous bitumen emulsion, consisting of the following constituents expressed in weight percentages of the emulsion total weight: 50% to 70% of bitumen; 0.5% to 10% of surfactant; 0% to 5% of thickening agent; 0% to 1% of antifoaming agent; a sufficient quantity of water to make up 100%. Said emulsion is characterised in that the surfactant consists of at least a surfactan...

An apparatus for video clock and framing signal extraction by transport stream snooping parses MPEG-2 Transport Packet headers from a transmission transport stream and partially decodes the headers to identify those corresponding to a specified packet identification (PID). From the specified headers a program clock is decoded and compared with a recovered program clock generated by a local clock o...

PCT No. PCT/DK93/00366 Sec. 371 Date May 8, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date May 8, 1995 PCT Filed Sep. 9, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/11088 PCT Pub. Date May 26, 1994A filtration medium made from a plurality of solid fibers aligned in the same direction and packed and bundle together and compressed at a portion thereof by a retainer member, and a displacement member disposed inside the packed fibers forming clos...

In addition to the electroluminescent element (2) there is also at least a conductive film (5), which can be supplied and heated by voltage, independently of electricity supply of the luminescent element. Pref. the film can be automatically supplied with voltage in dependence on temp. control (10) supplied temp. signal of a temp. sensor (11), which is spatially allocated to luminescent element for...

A dental material based on a polymerizable binder containing at least one chromophoric silica-metal oxide xerogel (I) as coloring component, is new. A dental material based on a polymerizable binder contains at least one chromophoric xerogel of formula (I), (SiO2)a(SiO1.5-Sp-X-CG)(MenOm)b (I) Me = a main group II or III metal or a group IV transition metal; n = 1 or 2; m = 1 or 2 when n =1, and m ...

Bei einem Verfahren zum Untersuchen eines Objekts hinsichtlich Informationen, die mittels einer reliefartigen Struktur an dem Objekt vorhanden sind, wird zunächst eine ursprüngliche Höhendarstellung des Objekts bereitgestellt, die einen Höhenverlauf des Objekts wiedergibt. Die ursprüngliche Höhendarstellung des Objekts wird unter Verwendung von Höhenänderungen bearbeitet, um die reliefartige Struk...

A solid core optic fiber with a coated optical waveguide (2) encompasses a buffer (4) made of a material containing polyvinyl choride (41), which is deposited on the coating of the optical waveguide. The buffer material contains a solid component (42) which is distributed in the buffer material and causes a mechanical separation effect in relation to the coating of the optical waveguide. The solid...

Method for film stretching and introduction of standards for attainment of reproducible images in diagnostic thermography in which after cooling of an object, a standard is maintained during the dynamic phase of re-warming of the object. During re-warming multiple images per second are recorded. Imaging is ended when the dynamic change per unit time falls below a fixed percentage.; Die unterschied...

Die Achse mit einer unterhalb der Radachse angeordneten Achsbrücke (1) weist mindestens einen Antriebsmotor (2) auf, der ein Motorgehäuse (5) aufweist, sowie eine Federträgerkonsole (4), wobei die Achsbrücke (1) an der Federträgerkonsole (4) befestigt ist.; Axle comprises an axle bridge (1) arranged under the wheel axle, at least one drive motor (2) having a motor housing (5), and a bracket (4) co...

The device has a spring-loaded slider (9) which covers the socket openings for insertion of the plug pins, released by simultaneous insertion of 2 plug pins. A guide allows the slider to move perpendicular to the longitudinal movement direction, with a pair of guide grooves cooperating with side guide projections of the slider and a central guide groove (3) cooperating with a central guide project...

A 4-stage preparation of halogenated diphenyl ethers of formula (1) is claimed, as are also (A) novel compounds of formula (8a) (ie certain of the oxidised intermediates of formula (8)) and (B) the use of the compounds thus obtained as disinfectants to protect organic materials against attack by microorganisms. The preparation (shown in the reaction scheme below) comprises (i) acylating a halogena...